INCENDIARY'S CRIME.
HOUSE SET ON FIRE. WOMAN TIED' TO TREE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 10.5' p.m.)' ' BRISBANE. Feb. 11. A sensational , incendiary outrage is reported from the Gayndah district. Mrs. Pope wife -of an employee of the Cooya Station, states that an unknown man visited the house during her husband's absence, tied her to a tree, and set fire to the house, which was totally destroyed.
She managed to free herself after the man's departure.
The police are searching the district, which is, extremely rugged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 7
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87INCENDIARY'S CRIME. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 7
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